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April 30, 2003
a tourism advertisement for hong kong..
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| honesty is the best policy.. |
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and if you dont believe me, go here..
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return of the true king..
lord of the rings just got better..
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April 29, 2003
oooooooh yea..
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| "dunk you very much, kobe.." |
hope esther will let me play it tonite =)..
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April 26, 2003
in others words..
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder,
but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup [idem]
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open
sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are."
- Gore Vidal
"What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked
him if he was happy
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the
other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Yogi Berra [W, you listening?]
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Posted by chars at 05:13 AM | Comments (3)
April 25, 2003
the lakers cried wolf..
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| uh shaq, youd be better off tuckin in that jersey than tryin to block da kid.. |
yeah, theyll probly not win the series (although i now think they have as good a shot as sacramento or san antonio). but they proved two important things tonite:
1) the timberwolves are makin their first step to the next level - this series reminds me of the kings-jazz one in '99 when sacramento pushed utah to the brink. a team w/ little expectation to win just beat the lakers TWO games in a row!! and they beat em on the ROAD!! this could be the beginnin..
2) the lakers are vulnerable - wutever did not work in the regular season, dr phil tried to sweep under the rug goin into the playoffs. yet its clear the defendin champs are lackin things they had in previous years. their defense is porous (the twolves shot +50% these last two games), they sorely lack a competent PF to play next to or back up shaq (mark madsen?? pleeze), and they have no "moxie" (as phil likes to say)--the confidence and determination to win when theyre down by 15 has been replaced w/ arrogance and conceit..
this may be it--theyre goin down..
(he says while knockin on wood)
Posted by chars at 03:11 AM | Comments (1)
April 24, 2003
five sequels i wanna see this summer..
5. bad boys 2 - the millionth time martin lawrence plays himself.....as a cop. and yet, ill still go watch it cuz hes so damn funny..
4. terminator 3 - a bit iffy on this one only cuz its not helmed by james cameron..
3. dumb and dumberer - jim carrey, back from "acting".. (* addendum - shoot, dans right: no jim carrey!! and no farrelly brothers!! hmm, maybe i should replace this w/ "legally blonde 2"..)
2. x2 - faithfulness to the comic book made the first. hopefully, itll continue..
1. the matrix reloaded - a little worried cuz there may be too much buildup and hype. and now that neo knows hes the o-n-e, will the ride be the same?
oh, and if i could list a sixth it would be spy kids 3-D!! (oh, theyre so cool--and yes, im kiddin)..
Posted by chars at 09:53 AM | Comments (2)
April 23, 2003
who comes up w/ this stuff?
can you figure out this mind?
Posted by chars at 09:18 AM | Comments (5)
April 21, 2003
maybe ill name my kid "virgil"..
so esther and i saw better luck tomorrow last nite. very interestin movie. i liked it--actually, i more than liked it. im somewhere between 'liked it' and 'really liked it'..
im not good at summarizin plus, im not one to re-iterate plots. but i would classify it as a dark comedy w/ 'comedy' bein used in the haha-sense of the word not in the shakespearean..
i saw the preview for it a few real world episodes ago w/ the milf guy doin a monologue (i first thought it was a public service announcement w/ me thinkin: "how sad--from box-office-hit to canned-tv-show to talk-to-your-kids-commercials..") and found it very intriguing. it wasnt until i read a friends review that i realized the film had an asian-american slant. so then i became even more intrigued..
however (<-- bad grammar), i actually didnt think it was that asian in nature. i went into the theatre expectin some sort of asians-lost-in-america propaganda and came out pleased that it was anythin but. while the asian-american sub-text was weaved into the story, the plot and themes didnt revolve around it so much. a wash post review i read said it best: "Lin [the director] simply takes his Asian American context for granted, rarely addressing it explicitly yet making it an inextricable element of his characters and their stories."
i think wut this movie did for me (why do i hear jfk when i say that? "ask not wut a movie can do for you but...") was make me wish i had done more things in high school. not necessarily the things these kids in the film did, but just things that may have accelerated my growth as a person (yeah, as opposed to a 5'5, slight-framed, acne-faced teen). it reminds me of things i had desired back at that age--whether i was aware of em or not--and the decisions i made then whose consequences (or lack thereof) i still wonder about now..
hence, better luck tomorrow i guess..
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April 16, 2003
all good things..
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April 15, 2003
that other certainty..
april 15th, uh-oh..
have you done your taxes yet?
have i done our taxes yet?
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April 11, 2003
may 15th..
full trailer for reloaded is out..
damn..
Posted by chars at 12:22 PM | Comments (1)
to be a better person..
found these amusin tips in esquire under the title, how to be a deadbeat..
- "late fees at video-rental stores? restock the item on the shelf. when the late charge is applied later, insist you returned it on time and demand that they check the shelf. also works at libraries."
- "upgrade you dvd collection: rent the special-edition dvd, remove, and return with the standard dvd."
yes..
Posted by chars at 12:49 AM | Comments (2)
April 04, 2003
again and again..
THREE MOVIES I WATCH AGAIN AND AGAIN EVERY FRICKIN TIME THEYRE ON TNT/TBS BECAUSE THEY END SO WELL
when harry met sally - "I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
the american president - "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours... The symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free... My name is Andrew Shepherd and I AM the President."
the shawshank redemption - "Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. For the second time in my life I'm guilty of committing a crime: Parole Violation. 'Course I doubt they'll toss up any road blocks for that, not for an old crook like me. I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I imagine it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at the start of a long journey, whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border... I hope to see my friend and shake his hand... I hope the pacific is a blue as it has been in my dreams... I hope..."
gawd, im such a sap..
Posted by chars at 09:05 AM | Comments (4)
April 02, 2003
the adventure of links..
- top 100 april fools hoaxes..
- this guy tried to pull a back-to-the-future..
- pre-mortem activist emails..
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